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Location | Sabratha, Libya |
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Coordinates | 32°48′19″N 12°29′59″E / 32.80528°N 12.49972°E |
Type | Settlement |
History | |
Cultures | Phoenician, Numidia, Roman |
Official name | Archaeological Site of Sabratha |
Type | Cultural |
Criteria | iii |
Designated | 1982 |
Reference no. | 184 |
Region | North African States |
The archaeological site of Sabratha is an excavated Numidian and later Roman city situed near present-day Sabratha, Libya.[1]
It was a Phoenician trading-post that served as an outlet for the products of the African hinterland, and later part of the short-lived Numidian Kingdom of Massinissa before being Romanized and rebuilt in the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D.[2]